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No. 477,952. Patented June 2s, 1892.

UNITED- STATES PATENT j OFFICE. Y

GEORGE L. MOORE AND CHARLES JORY, OF STOORTON, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNORS To wOoDsON T. HARRIS, or SAME PLACE.

-GRAPE-PICKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 477,952, dated June 28, 1892..

. To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE L. MOORE and CHARLES JORY, citizens of the United States,

fesiding at Stockton, in the county of San Joa- `quin and State of California, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Grape- -Pickersg and we do declare the following to be 1a full, clear, and exact description of the inf vention, such as will enable others skilled in ence marked thereon, .which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to an improvement in devices for cutting grapes from the vine and holding the cut bunches so that they may be delivered into a basket, box, or other receptacle without handling them.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which-- Figure l is an edge or Side view of our improved device. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view tak en in the plane indicated by the dotted line aux on Fig. 1. p n

In carrying out our invention we take a bar A of flat spring-steel other suitable material of a sufficient length and width and cut away one edge of each end, as better shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, so as to form two jaws A' and B. W'e then take a cutter B of a form substantially as shown in Figs. l and 2 and secure it to the inner side at the eut-away edge of one end of the bar or strip by rivets or other suitable means. XVe then temper the bar at a point midway of its length, where it is thinned, as Shown at A2, after which we bend the same into a looped form, so as to form `two spring branches, and we bend or curve the branches at a short distance from their ends, as better shown in Fig. l of the drawings, sothat the jaws A' and B may come flat together when the branches are pressed by the thumb and ingers. At the base of the cut-away portion of the jaw A' weV form a guide-slot C, and the cutter B has an extension a, which is designed to enter said Application filed November 27, 1891. Serial Nth/113,298. (No model.)

slot so as to guide the movements of the jaw A', which latterj aw Serves in connection with the cutter to sever the twig or branch.

D indicates a thumb-piece. This thumbpiece is arranged on the branch of the jaw A' 55 and On the outer side thereof. This thumbpiece, which is curved to receive the thumb, is provided with a hole cl, and a Set-screwEis employed to secure said thumb-piece to the j branch of the jaw A', said branch being pro- 6o vided with one or more holes whereby the thumb-piece may be adj ustably Secured thereto. It will be observed that the cutter B assumes a position in a plane relatively at right angles tothe jaw B and is secured at the cutaway portion thereof, so that the jaws, when pressed together, may bear flat upon each other.

In operation the device is taken in the hand with the thumb against the piece D. The twig 7o or branch to be cut is then received between the cutter and the jaw A', and it is obvious that before the twig or branch will be entirely Severed the jaws which project laterally from the cutter will have pressed suiiciently upon the stem, so as to hold the bunch as it is severed, and such hold may be retained by keeping the thumb and lingers pressed upon the branches of the device until the cut bunch has been placed in a basket or other receptacle. 8o

This device is very elfective for the purposes described. It is very durable, may be easily manufactured, and there are no joints or such parts about it that may get out of order.

Having described our invention, what we claim is l. As an improved article of manufacture, the grape-cutter described, composed of the strip of steel or other suitable material having the edges at opposite ends cut-away and .9o a cutter secured to one of said cut away ends on the inner side thereof, so as to form lateral jaws 0n one side of the cutter, whereby a bunch of grapes may be held after being cut, substantially as specified. 9 5

2. The grape-cutter described, composed of a baror strip of steel or other material thinned or tempered at or about midway of its length and looped so as to form a finger branch and a thumb branch, each branch being cutaway loo at its terminal end on corresponding edges In testimony whereof We afixolirsignatnres and one branch having the slot at the base of in presence of two Witnesses. itscnt-away portion, n cutter secured to one GEORGE L. MOORE. of the jaws or branches sind having an exten- CHARLES JORY.

5 sion to enter the slot in lshe opposite branch, Witnesses:

and a thumb-piece secured t0 the outer side of JOSHUA B. WEBSTER, one of the branches, substantially as specified. J AMES T. SUMMERVILLE.

VIt; is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 477,952, granted June 28, 1892, upon(y the application of George `-L.' Mooreand Charles Jory, of Stockton, Galiafornia,for an improvement in Grape Pickers, virere erroneously issued to Woodson T. Harris, as sole owneriof the said inventiong'th at said Letters Patent should have been issued' to said George L. Moore and Woodson T. Harris, jointly, said Harrisvbeiug assignee of the interest of said Charles Jory only, as shown by the record of assignments in this Office; and that said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oce. y l

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 2d day of August, A. D. 1892.

[SEAL] A GYRUS BUSSEY,

Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Countersigned:

N. L. FROTHINGHAM, l

4Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Correction in Letters-Patent No.` 477,952.A 

